internet librarian who created fandometrics. one with the internet by day and night. cat mom. strongly opinionated about crystals, 2000s pop punk, and new jersey. tech witch. puddle of queer glitter. she/her.
dont worry about that hand on the front cover that was pen with no pencil i shall be waiting for my applause jk
i'm really excited i deleted instagram on sunday and the second it was gone i felt as though david bowie and marc bolan had lifted a curse from my soul
here are things i wanna do!
Are you Generation Z and using Tumblr? Did you come back to your old account or have you signed up for a new one to join the hype? I'm a journalist at a UK national newspaper (who clearly used to blog on here as white-bread-toast, lol) looking to speak to other Gen Z Tumblr users about why they use this platform and what brought them here. Get in touch in DMs or email me at daisy.eastlake@thetimes.co.uk. Thanks !!
For everyone who missed the first article, go reach out to Daisy!
healing my inner young girl is such heart wrenching back breaking work and no one is more worthy of it than her
Tumblr is ruled by fandoms, but which fandoms rule the hardest?
This week and every week hereafter, we’ll be figuring it out by tallying all the searches, tags, reblogs, and likes that go rumbling through our corridors. The result? Fandometrics. A pleasingly scientific ranking of the fandoms on Tumblr.
Here’s a little preview of the #2 fandoms for each category of fandom we’re studying. Why #2? So you can enjoy the suspense of clicking through to find out #1.
#2 TV Show: The Legend of Korra
#2 Movie: Big Hero 6
#2 Musical Act: One Direction
#2 Celebrity: Chris Evans
#2 Video Game: Dragon Age
#2 Web Celeb: AmazingPhil
Find out the #1’s (and #3’s through #20’s) over at Fandometrics.
Last week, the entire editorial staff at Tumblr (my shiniest unicorns, my untamed rabbits, my very good amazing talented brilliant wonderful friends) were laid off bringing a very unceremonious end to the proudest moment of my career, @fandom fka The Fandometrics.
I just got an email repeating last week’s Week in Review (and i guess will continue to receive it forever because there’s no one to turn it off?) and i wanted to pour one out for the thing that brought me the most joy in my career and continued life after I moved on from Tumblr. I’ve been in deep mourning for everything this layoff has meant for Tumblr in general but today the reality of it really hit me. The radar (maybe one of the last human-curated things on the internet?) will just repeat the same 5 posts forever. There will be no more big weeks on Tumblr. Just silence on that blog I fought so hard for for so many years. The blog that my team went on to nourish and grow and do amazing things with in the past four years. That’s it. No goodbyes.
So here’s the first staff post about it. Tumblr, thank you for letting me do weird library science with my little spreadsheets and terminal scripts and all the ships that ever passed through anyone’s dash. Thank you to every person who ever touched the TagCat and made magic happen on that blog.
Fandometrics you will always be famous.
update - it looks like at least Week in Review will be continuing (shoutout to the one unicorn left standing) <3
taking this out of the reblogs of my last post @deez-no-relation because I think it’s important and its own thought.
There isn’t any place similar to Tumblr on the internet. Here and now is the last shreds of an internet that was, an internet that could exist without monetization. An internet that lasted through so many ~pivots to video~, an internet that is text and gif and photo first. An internet that is driven by serendipity and the impetus of the user to do the searching, the digging, the work that is just handed to you by algorithms on other sites for the purpose of better advertising to you.
The best part about Tumblr is the reason why it can’t monetize and I have been hitting up against this wall for literal years. There’s magic here because it’s one of the places that hasn’t been overrun by ads. Every social site’s business model relies on those midrolls, prerolls, in between story slides, because the money is what keeps them running.
Someone joked about making Tumblr a UNESCO World Heritage site and honestly? That’s where my brain goes, too. Tumblr is a library. Tumblr is a museum. Tumblr is a third place. Tumblr is where people can go to be inspired and go feral over shit they love and indulge in passion and process their shit. How do you monetize that safely?
@taylorswift honestly this is your moment to bankroll Tumblr and save the internet (just kidding….) (unless…..)
Tumblr is ruled by fandoms, but which fandoms rule the hardest?
This week and every week hereafter, we’ll be figuring it out by tallying all the searches, tags, reblogs, and likes that go rumbling through our corridors. The result? Fandometrics. A pleasingly scientific ranking of the fandoms on Tumblr.
Here’s a little preview of the #2 fandoms for each category of fandom we’re studying. Why #2? So you can enjoy the suspense of clicking through to find out #1.
#2 TV Show: The Legend of Korra
#2 Movie: Big Hero 6
#2 Musical Act: One Direction
#2 Celebrity: Chris Evans
#2 Video Game: Dragon Age
#2 Web Celeb: AmazingPhil
Find out the #1’s (and #3’s through #20’s) over at Fandometrics.
Last week, the entire editorial staff at Tumblr (my shiniest unicorns, my untamed rabbits, my very good amazing talented brilliant wonderful friends) were laid off bringing a very unceremonious end to the proudest moment of my career, @fandom fka The Fandometrics.
I just got an email repeating last week’s Week in Review (and i guess will continue to receive it forever because there’s no one to turn it off?) and i wanted to pour one out for the thing that brought me the most joy in my career and continued life after I moved on from Tumblr. I’ve been in deep mourning for everything this layoff has meant for Tumblr in general but today the reality of it really hit me. The radar (maybe one of the last human-curated things on the internet?) will just repeat the same 5 posts forever. There will be no more big weeks on Tumblr. Just silence on that blog I fought so hard for for so many years. The blog that my team went on to nourish and grow and do amazing things with in the past four years. That’s it. No goodbyes.
So here’s the first staff post about it. Tumblr, thank you for letting me do weird library science with my little spreadsheets and terminal scripts and all the ships that ever passed through anyone’s dash. Thank you to every person who ever touched the TagCat and made magic happen on that blog.
Fandometrics you will always be famous.
Just a reminder in case you're ever looking to back up your blog try this method first before you do something silly like scrape the thing yourself or put your password into a third-party tool without verifying what it really does
